Tell Congress: Defend Encryption

The FBI may have backed off its attempts to strong-arm Apple into building a backdoor to the iPhone, but the fight over crypto is far from over. The ENCRYPT Act and the Secure Data Act are federal bills that will safeguard encryption and reject backdoors. Tell your representatives in Congress to co-sponsor these vital bills.

Tell Justin Trudeau: You can free Saeed Malekpour, Web developer and political prisoner.

Saeed Malekpour is a Canadian developer who was seized from the streets of Tehran by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in 2008. His crime? He wrote open source code for Web image uploads that was later used without his knowledge by an Iranian pornography site. Tell Justin Trudeau to fight for his freedom.

Keep Publicly Funded Research Public

When we pay for federally funded research, we should be allowed to read it. That’s the simple premise of FASTR, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act (S. 779, H.R. 1477).

A federal open access law is long overdue. FASTR has strong support on both sides of the aisle, but it still hasn't come up for a vote in either chamber of Congress. Let's send a strong message to lawmakers: we can’t stall on open access for another year. It’s time to move FASTR.